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Karen Sofia Campos, B.S.

Pronouns: she, her

MARC Scholar / Undergraduate Student
2019-2023

College of Sciences
Harrison Lab

San Diego

Links
  1. Karen’s Website
  2. Harrison Lab
Accounts

Areas of Research

Capillary Electrophoresis

Bio

I started as an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Timothy Clark’s Organic Chemistry Laboratory where I studied the mechanism of Iridium-catalyzed C-H Borylation of Benzylic Amines under the guidance of the primary investigator and fourth-year students.

I’m currently an undergraduate research assistant in Dr. Christopher Harrison’s Bioanalytical Chemistry Lab, exploring novel solvent mixtures for capillary electrophoresis separation buffers.

I’m an active member of SDSU’s Women in Science Society and a Student-Tutor Coordinator and Chemistry Tutor at the San Diego Tutoring Tree.

Mentors

Christopher Harrison, Ph.D.
Timothy Clark, Ph.D.

Details

Publications
  1. Torres, J., Campos, K., and Harrison, C.R. (2022). Fluorescently Labeling Amino Acids in a Deep Eutectic Solvent Analytical Chemistry, 94, 48.
Presentations
  1. SACNAS National Diversity in STEM – Poster Presentation – Puerto Rico Oct. 27th-29th, 2022 “Optimizing the fluorescent labeling reaction of amino acids in deep eutectic solvents for use in CE-LIF”
  2. Undergraduate Research Symposium – Oral Presentation – San Diego Oct. 21st, 2022 State University “Optimizing the fluorescent labeling reaction of amino acids in deep eutectic solvents for use in CE-LIF”
  3. FACSS SciX 2022 – Poster Presentation – Kentucky Oct. 2nd-7th, 2022“ Using Deep Eutectic Solvents as Reaction and Separation Media for Capillary Electrophoresis”
  4. HPLC 2022 – Poster Presentation – San Diego Jun.18th-23rd, 2022“ Novel fluorescent labelling of amino acids for detection of past life via CE-LIF” Jessica Torres, Karen S. Campos, Christopher Harrison.
  5. Student Research Symposium – Poster Presentation – San Diego State University March 4th, 2022“Evaluating the detection of fluorescently labeled amino acids in deep eutectic solvents”
Education
  1. B.S. Chemistry
    San Diego State University
Fun Facts
  1. What is your favorite thing to do with your free time?
    Walk my dogs, hang out with my cats, watch anime with my sister, and trying food from all over the world!
  2. What is a fun-fact about you?
    I can speak Spanish as well as some French and some Korean!
  3. What is your favorite food?
    Chiles en Nogada
  4. What’s your ethnicity?
    Mexican